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#1

“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
― Francois Mauriac

tags: books, literacy, reading

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#2

“Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.”
― Peter De Vries

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#3

“A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”
― China Miéville, King Rat

tags: challenge, trap

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#4

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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#5

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities

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#6

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: dreams, life

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#7

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#8

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness

10858 likes

#9

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

tags: secrets

3579 likes

#10

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

tags: paradox

2458 likes

#11

“The unfed mind devours itself.”
― Gore Vidal

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#12

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
― Doris Lessing

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#13

“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

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#14

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
― Socrates

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#15

“In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

tags: ghosts, haunt

2580 likes

#16

“Sanity is a madness put to good uses.”
― George Santayana , The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings

tags: madness, sanity

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#17

“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”
― George Santayana

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#18

“Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.”
― George Santayana, The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One

tags: history, past

289 likes

#19

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom

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#20

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: encouragement, gandalf

11350 likes

#21

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: conscience, politics, right

4837 likes

#22

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

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#23

“In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”
― John Grisham

tags: inspirational-life

2289 likes

#24

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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#25